Creation Bus

Just catching up here. Here's a photo of Emma and her big cat Henry. Henry was named for the guy who gave him to her after his mom said, hey you're sixteen, this cat is just sitting in your closet, how about giving it to Emma?? This was after The Makeover. (Are we not fabulous??)

A prayer Emma offered completely out of the blue before a recent meal: "Thank you for the world. Thank you for this day. It was lovely. Remember this day when you took care of us. Thank you for making the world. AMEN!" (Seeing your child's original artwork or hearing her begin to verbalize prayers are such elemental validations of goodness and have provided some of my favorite parenting moments so far.)

Finally, one of Emma's little spontaneous rap numbers overheard the other day (this could be big): "God has more creation than us, we have more creation than God, we’re all on the creation bus..." (Please don't ask me what it means.)